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Addressing the Quiet Crisis: Origins of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

By Richard F. Weingroff

Table of Contents

• The Sixties
• One Brave Woman
• The Quiet Crisis
• Adapting to a New Era
• The Natives are Restless
• Images of Environmental Destruction
• National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
• The "Action-Forcing Mechanism"
• Congress Approves NEPA
• NEPA Becomes Law
• April 1970
• Reorganization Plan No. 3
• FHWA Goes on the Offense
• NEPA and the Transition to Environmental Stewardship
• A Field Perspective
• Adapting to NEPA
• A Competing Requirement
• Adjustments
• The Year of the Environment